Now in paperback. The QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Pigs suffer from anorexia. Wagner always wore pink silk underwear. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. The first computer mouse was made of wood. If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on QI's website.
Every fact in this magnificent little volume has been researched with punctilious care in order to bring you the truth in its purest form.
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just to pay the cable bill and the music and art classes for your kid at the public school where they used to be free. And it is only going to get worse. Whatever benefits you may have now are going to get whittled down to nothing.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know! Check out The Book of General Ignorance for more fun entries and complete answers to the following: How long can a chicken live without its head?
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Throughout the book, attention is given to the difficult question of how to provide best practice in countries where the discipline of geriatric medicine is not well established and resources for secondary prevention are scarce.
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of ...